Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our consensus style of government allows Members more than any other jurisdiction to be involved in the development of the budget. For example, we sat down as 19 Members and discussed what fiscal strategy we would use, and going forward on that, we started building the budget. We know that our timeline was very tight, but coming forward to the next system, Members will be directly involved in the business planning process from that three-year business plan process. We will then take the comments of Members and develop a draft main estimates. Then again Members will be able to review those draft main estimates and we will further take those comments and then develop them into the main estimates that are before the House, like at this time. So there are a number of opportunities where Members will be involved in the development of that process. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 128-15(3): Improving The Budget Approval Process
In the Legislative Assembly on March 31st, 2004. See this statement in context.
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March 30th, 2004
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